Same FBI that has a flash new big office in NZ.

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

My kids & their friends say “that looks/sounds like AI” to mean shitty & fake/stupid. Really incredible to be inundated by “transformative AI“ discourse when the reality is so plainly the opposite.

That’s where your labia closed up to catch your ovaries as you tried to fire them outside your body from underneath your long clit.

it's all so fucked up.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

👀 #nzpol

🔭 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020...

If it weren’t for the ‘penis injections to ski jump further‘ story I wouldn’t have even known the Winter Olympics was on.

This plus the misogyny is why he still has so many supporters.

Timely reread. “ACT "weaponised" astroturfs. #nzpol #TaxpayersUnion "So when the TPU were saying 'This is a problem', it was actually a contrived problem that the ACT Party told them to create.” What problems will they be inventing for ACT to ‘solve’ for the 2026 NZ election?

I must say I’m enjoying seeing all these kakapo egg updates. Heartening.

On Feb 7 2020, Dr Li Wenliang, known as one of the first whistleblowers on COVID, died from the disease in Wuhan.

Anyway I've said it before, for half of what the government is obsessively pouring into asphalt for the upper North Island, you could build 100 years of infrastructure for the entire fucking country not just it's god damned trucking companies - bsky.app/profile/oldm...

On the one hand it is July (so winter), on the other hand Central is sheltered by the Southern Alps, so more clear than cloudy in the afternoon. (But I would expect serious international eclipse hunters to try Australia, this is more for local's benefit)

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026. THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW. Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

Used in a sentence: “History will remember him not as a venerated leader, but as a doddering rampallion who mistook vice for virtue, cruelty for kindness, and his own pantaloons for a privy, leaving behind nothing more than a sebaceous smear and the stench of his inimicitious infamies.”

90’s me is ecstatic.

💯 john key and the Nats still love trump, maybe even more. #nzpol

This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]

“Good girling the chatbot until it gives me discounts” Folks new type of yuri just dropped

They've disabled quotes but Beethoven, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Goya, Matisse, Cyprián Majerník, Dorothy Stanton Wise

ECan has trashed a whole river by prioritising farming.

They started up today!

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Winter Olympic Games (Series, 1924 - )

This SHOULD NOT BE BEHIND A PAYWALL Fucks sake www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

One of the comments called this “Beige Against The Machine” and I made a noise that startled the dog.

Thread of pure happiness.

This fucker killed so many babies.

Most Heated Rivalry coverage has been focused on what young people, particularly younger straight women, think. I cover aging and decided to ask older gay men about their thoughts. I found: A founder of what may have been the first gay hockey blog, a wedding cake shaped like a Zamboni and more.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tanuki ski jump team

Has anyone heard any cicadas yet this summer?

ski jump penis doping story only underscores the advantages of shape and drape over slim fit clothing www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

You laugh, but I remember the guy whose dong was so huge he lost at pole vault

I would self-fund #landback in Aotearoa. Just buy up everything and return to indigenous rightful owners, land for manaakitanga not profits. Imagine the power shift and poverty reduction, the mana of indigenous globally would be lifted with such an example of what happens when a wrong is righted.

Its as if we saw that measles is a terrible disease so we made something to prevent it 🤷

I have too much to say about those ridiculous pricks mouthing off at Waitangi so I think I’ll just keep scrolling.

A great deal of correlation between who has spouted transphobic dross and who is coming out with pro-pedo apologetics. Almost as if narrowly defining women and womanhood according to patriarchal needs is pure grotesque oppression and exploitation.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Bring boys up separate from girls so you can tell them a bunch of toxic bullshit about girls and women and they never get a chance to see it’s untrue.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

I have been referring to this time in history as The Great Stagnation, but am now considering The Stupidening.

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

Education in the US is so underfunded they can only afford a single math

Workers hired for "data annotation" are not told the subjects of annotation will, over time, be more and more horrific. There ned to be class action lawsuits that bankrupt AI companies and throw executives in jail. In the meantime, "don't use genAI" - not video, not anything else.

That‘s the spirit.